Dangerous Intersection is under construction – and a note about Gravatar

As you can tell, there have been quite a few changes to the site design of Dangerous Intersection. There are many more changes to come. Therefore, if you see something that looks not quite right for the next couple of weeks, we're probably working on it. It's taken many hours of work--I now know ten times as much about WordPress as I did one month ago. But it's also been fun and educational. WordPress is a most impressive system, with perhaps too many choices. Too many choices, did I say? Sign up for Gravatar! You can personalize your comments with your own image. Truly, it's EASY. It will take 5 minutes at most, assuming you have an image of yourself ready. It's totally free. With Gravatar, you have total control over the image you'd like to use as author of comments (your photo will be displayed next to each comment you make). You can change it any time you want, Total control. Ownership society! Just visit Gravatar - Set up an account with the email address you normally use when you leave comments and choose a password

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Create your own yard sign for Obama

Why use a pre-made Obama sign when you can make your own?  This question became obvious this weekend.  My neighborhood was sponsoring an art fair along a long boulevard, "The Shaw Art Fair." (here's some of the art). Almost 150 artists showed up.  One of the neighbors set up a…

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Dangerous safety signs

In this month's Wilson Quarterly, you can read Tom Vanderbilt's delightful story about a Dutch traffic engineer  who made a town safer by making the people feel unsafe. In the last few years, however, one traffic engineer did achieve a measure of global celebrity, known, if not exactly by name, then…

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